Cap



Sept. 12, 1933.

F. B. MILLER CAP Filed Aug. 24, 1932 TE /2 r- 6 7 FAINTI'ERS ATTORNEY Patented Sept. 12,. 1933 UNITED-7 STATES PATENT; OFFlCE Application August 24, 1932. Serial-N0. 630,293 I V 2 Claims.

paper or other inexpensive flexible material, the

cap being compactly folded when collapsed so that it will occupy .mimimum space for shipping or storage and will be capable of being easily and quickly unfolded and thus opened when ready for use, the top of the cap being closed by flaps which are so folded that they conform substantially with the shape of the cap when it is opened and applied to the head of the wearer, the improved cap being particularly adapted for advertising purposes since it may be manufactured from a strip of paper which may have advertising matter readily and inexpensively printed thereon previous to the making of the caps therefrom so'that the printed advertising matter will appear in appropriate positions on the finished caps. I

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of a cap made in accordance with the present invention; the cap being shown in folded or collapsed condition;

Fig. 2 is a top plan of the improved cap in unfolded or opened condition;

Fig.3 is a transverse vertical section through the unfolded or opened cap, taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section through the folded or collapsed cap, taken on .the line 4-4 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cap in substantially the form which it assumeswhen applied to the head of the wearer.

Similar parts are designated by the same reference characters in the. several figures.

The improved cap, which is made preferably from a strip or sheet of paper of the kind commonly used in the making of paper bags, or other suitable flexible or foldable material, comprises a tubular body portion 1 of a suitable diameter to fit around the head of the wearer, the lower edge of this body portion being turned inwardly to form a sweat band 2 and also to stiffen the lower edge of the body portion and reinforce it against splitting or tearing, the upper end of the tubular body portion being closed by a pair of flaps 3 which are turned inwardly from the front and rear of the body portion respectively and side flaps 4 which are turned inwardly from the respective sides of the body portion and are pasted to the inner ends of the flaps 3 and to one another. The flaps 3 are joined 'to the sides of the body portion along fold lines 5 which converge to points 6 at thefront and back respeca tively of'the cap, the central longitudinal elongation thus produced in the top of the cap bring- 0 ing it into approximate conformity with the curvature of the wearers head at the front and back and thus enabling the top of the cap to readily accommodate itself substantially to the shape of the wearers head when the cap is ap- 5 plied thereto. The cap may have advertising or other printed matter applied thereto as indicated at '7 and 8 and may be printed with an ornamental design 9 such, for example, as that shown.

'When the cap is collapsed or folded it will have the appearance and form shown in Figs. 1 and 4, the sides of the body portion 1 being then flattened against one another and the top of the cap'lying closely at one side of the body portion and being connected thereto by the fold line 10, as shown most clearly in Fig. 4. While the cap is thus folded or collapsed, it will occupy minimum space for shipping or storage. When the cap is to be used, it is opened by spreading apart the sides of the body portion 1 and sweat band 2,-

' and as this portion of the cap is thus opened, the

top portion of the cap will swing into position above the body portion, it swinging about the fold line 10 so that this side of the body portion assumes an upright position substantially parallel with the opposite side of the body portion, substantially as shown in Fig. 3, and thefolds 3 at the front and back of the cap will assume -a more 'or less curved form substantially as shown in90 Fig. 5 and thus conform substantially with the shape of the wearers head at the front and back thereof.

The improved cap is preferably made from a tube of paper of appropriate diameter, the sides of the tube at one end thereof, while the tube is in flattened form, being spread apart to produce the so-called diamond make in the manufacture of ordinarypsatchel bottom bags and forming the lateral flaps 3 which fold on the diagonal lines 5 which converge to the points 6 which coincide with the flattened edges of the tube, after which the flaps 4 are folded inwardly: over the flaps 3 on one another and are pasted together as in an ordinary satchel bottom bag.

The cap may be perforated at any suitable part or parts thereof for ventilating purposes. In Fig. 5 six such perforations 11 are shown, four in the top and two in one side of the cap. These perforations may be produced by punching through the cap, while folded, at the four points at which perforations are shown in Fig. 1.

The improved caps may be manufactured inexpensively on an ordinary-bag making machine of well known form for making satchel bottom bags, as for example is shown in Letters Patent No. 407,794,-granted July 30, 1889, andNo'. 417,346, granted'Decernber 1'7, 1889,, to C. BjStilwell, with the exception that the paper tube from which the bags are made is formed without pleats in its edges, in consequence of which the lateral flaps 3 will extend to the points 6 coincident with the unpleated folded edges of the tube. The advertising, ornamental design orother-inatter appearing on the finished caps may be inexpensively I claim as my invention: 1

1. A cap comprising a tubular body composed of foldable material one end of which is turned in around its edge to form a band to fit around the head of the wearer and the other end of which is closed by flaps formed by inward extensions of the sides and edges of the tubular body, the 'fiapsextendingfrozn'the "edges of said body being folded with respect to the body on diagonal lines which converge to points located substantially at. the inner edge of said inturned end at the front and back of said body.

2. A cap comprising a fiat tubular paper body one 'end of which 'is turned in around its edge to 1"0rma band'and a top composed of flaps formed by extensions of the sides of said body,

certain of said flaps being folded on lines which converge toward the opposite folded edges of the tubular body and to points located substantially at the inner edge of said inturned end of the body and the top being joined to one side of the tubular body by a'fold linewhich is located substantially at the inner edge of said inturned end of the body and enables the top to collapse flatwise' against the flat tubular body.

" FREDERICK B. MILLER.

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CERTEFIGATE 0F CORRECTION.

Patent No. 1,926,912. September 12, 1933.

FREDERICK e. MILLER.

It is hereby certified that the residence of the assignee in the above numbered patent was errerieeusly described and specified as "Hudson Falls, New Jersey," whereas said residence should have been described and specified as Hudson Falls, New York, as shown by the records of assignments in this office; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 5th day of December, A. D. 1933.

F. M. Hopkins (Seal) Acting Commissiener of Patents. 

